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Originally Posted by TheCrayButton
We plan on maneuvering around them. We are a small robot that has a lot of pushing power. We can use that to our advantage. Also, the good defender robots will not only defend, but they will climb the tower. So in the time it takes for them to climb the tower, we could be banking shoots. In the past years, defender robotics really don't stick around to long because there is a "end game" task that they want to do. So therefore, you have about 30sec to shoot as many off as possible.
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If we know that you'll score more in disks in the last 30 seconds that we'll score on the tower, why on Earth would we stop defending you?
I suspect you'll find in quals that there are more than enough defenders that have nothing to do but sit on you. (In elims, this will still be true, but they'll also be good at slowing you down on the way to the feeder station.) You're not creating a 3-on-2 scenario, you're creating a 2-on-2 one, only the robot you take from them in the lowest scorer while the one you take from yours is well, you.
To be clear, I'm not disparaging you of the strategy, just advising you think more about it. What can you do to up your competitive advantage?
To Madison's very good question, I really hope "maneuvering around them" means "within the area of the loading zone" rather than in the open field. Have you simulated this with accurate/scale sizes? I think you're in for a heck of a surprise either way.